Breast Milk

The wondrous benefits of the breast milk can prove to be a boon for your newly born baby.

Breast milk, how is it produced

A woman’s body start to prepare for producing milk during her pregnancy. As she reaches to her third trimester, she will be able to realize the leaking colostrums which is also known as early milk. Once you deliver the baby and he or she starts suckling at breast of mother, the mother’s body acquires the urgency of signals to create nutrient-rich breast milk. The let-down specific reflexes of your body are stimulated by the baby’s cries. Whenever the baby cries, you will start feeling the leaking of breast milk. The process of taking up and breastfeeding the newly born baby will signify the inner program of your body to increase the production of milk.

The releasing of breast milk is a let-down specific reflex. Such let-down specific reflex may cause prickling, stinging, tingling or burning in the mother’s breasts. It doesn’t seems to difficult because such reflexes last only for few moments.

Breast Milk Composition

A nice combination of nutrients such as fats, proteins, and carbohydrate in a naturally fixed and appropriate amount that is required by a newly born baby is provided by the breast milk. The other natural constituents of breast milk are minerals, hormones and vitamins which are required by the newly born baby for the proper growth and development. Furthermore, the breast milk also provides the excellent anti-bodies that provide the newly born body a protection against various infections and diseases. In case you get a cold, by breast feeding, you will provide the antibodies to fight against cold to your toddler. By this process, the newly born baby will be immune to fight against cold.

The Needed Nutrition by the breast feeding mother

The mother’s milk proves to be an excellent nutritious and complete food for the newly born baby. While breast-feeding the mother also suffer load. In order to keep producing better milk quality, it is necessary to provide high quality food intake for the breast feeding mother. 2,700 calories are required by a breast feeding mother per day. It is obviously more than what is prescribed for a woman during her pregnancy. A high quantity of fluid intake is also required by the breastfeeding mothers. Water is considered as the fluid to be taken by mothers. Every breast feeding mother need to take at least eight glasses of fluid, water, fruit juices etc.

The food intake of the breast feeding mother should be rich with calcium, proteins, vitamin A and Vitamin C etc. The breast feeding mother may reduce the quantity of folic acid and iron intake that they were prescribed during their pregnancy.

Benefits of Breast Feeding for newly born babies

Breastfeeding is the natural and most successful way to provide excellent and scientifically proven nutrient rich food supply for newly born babies that helps them in developing healthier and faster. Suckling on the breasts will also improve the jaws of the newly born kid.